Unclassified road crash in Renfrewshire PA3 on 24 April 2001 at 08:20 involving a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry
A Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire at 08:20 on Tuesday 24 April 2001. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2001
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland DAF FA 45
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86182, longitude -4.40841, in the PA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Renfrew South and Gallowhill, Renfrewshire, PA3 4LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197KB42804
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 741
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the M8 in Renfrewshire, 4 December 1988
30 m awayRef 198897KB60212
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A741 in Renfrewshire, 6 September 1992
30 m awayRef 199297KA01509
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A741 in Renfrewshire, 28 February 1988
30 m awayRef 198897KB66602
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M8 in Renfrewshire, 10 May 1996
30 m awayRef 199697KA70305
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 25 February 1993
30 m awayRef 199397KC62802
Slight
Lorry crash on the M8 in Renfrewshire, 19 February 1988
30 m awayRef 198897KB65002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 45
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland DAF FA 45)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200197KB42804 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Renfrewshire road accident statistics for 2001.